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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Barely a week goes by that woeful statistics on the proliferation of cyber crime don’t make headlines in the trade and mainstream press. But a new study by Microsoft Research finds that many of those surveys are so rife with catastrophic statistical errors as to make their conclusions almost useless.
Spammers, it turns out, aren’t like everyone else: they have fewer friends. That, according to new research by Microsoft scientists who have developed a new method of distinguishing attacker-created spam email accounts from legitimate ones.
More than 360,000 North American credit cards were exposed in May when
an attack on Citigroup infiltrated that company’s card account
management website according to a report by IDG News.
Online attacks are increasingly being carried out by multi-function exploit kits, according to research by Web security firm zSclare.
A mid-February AutoRun update has had a dramatic effect on malware infection rates on the XP and Vista platforms, reducing infection rates using the AutoRun feature by as much as 68% across Windows platforms, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft patched nine critical vulnerabilities and seven important vulnerabilities, pushing out a total of 16 patches in the June edition of Patch Tuesday. One of the bugs patched was used to compromise Internet Explorer during the Pwn2Own contest this year.
Over the weekend the Senate website became the latest in a growing line of individuals, groups, and websites targeted by a new collective of Internet mischief makers, Lulz Security.
Google says it has suspended a number of suspicious applications from the Android Market after researchers at NC State announced they had discovered a new and particularly stealthy piece of spyware, dubbed “Plankton,” lurking in Android applications there.
The New York Times is reporting that Spanish Law enforcement officials have arrested three individuals in connection with cyberattacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network as well as other corporations and governments around the world. The individuals are alleged to be leading members of the internet hacker collective Anonymous.
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) released a consumer alert yesterday admitting that an attack on SonyPictures.com compromised the personally identifiable information (PII) of some 37,500 of their customers.
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